Re: Installation troubles

Hi,

On Wednesday 22 February 2012 21:04:12 herbert langhans wrote:
Hi Daemons,
yesterday I tried to install FreeBSD 9 on my 'new' laptop - an IBM X31.

Since this model has no CD or floppy drive I copied the memstick-file to
such an USB-thing and tried to boot. The laptop freezes when the kernel
scans for the UBS-ports, booting impossible.

Now my question: can I take the harddisk out, install FreeBSD 9 over
another laptop (with the X31-harddisk inside) and put the installed
harddrive back to the X31? Is there anything else besides the rc.d-stuff
what will/will not get installed if I use the 'wrong' computer?

The old hd-cotent will be deleted, the new laptop will only be FreeBSD.

All ideas welcome, thank you
herb langhans

I did this several times before but I used to connect the hard disk via USB. Just get an USB case for the disk. It is much easier this way as you keep one notebook intact.

You have to check the drives in fstab and rc.conf.

If I remember right the rest was ok.

Erich
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